The very Special October 2005 FEMA Appreciation Issue of Speculative Grammarian--the premier scholarly journal featuring research in the neglected field of satirical linguistics--is now available online for your browsing pleasure.

Special in this issue: an article on how to get a PhD without really trying, an announcement of a book on how to cheat at linguistics, and an epic poem recounting the history of the lightly anthropomorphized Mandarin tones.

Next time (Nov. 2005), we will have a special supplementary issue (CL.α) featuring a hypertext monograph entitled ''Choose Your Own Career in Linguistics''.